Comrade Chicherin's my previous note to him on this question and distribute it also to the members of the Politburo.

18/X.

Lenin

Written 18 October 1921

First published in 1959. Printed from the manuscript

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

*TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

I propose that urgently materials and information be sent to me concerning the construction of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk district electric power station (on Lake Rubskoye)325.

1) Statute on the state district Ivanovo-Voznesensk electric power station or on the construction of this station.

2) Have projects for the construction of this station been worked out and approved; the basic data of the project: capacity, type, etc.

3) How is the construction administration organized; number of offices; their location; mutual relations with each other and with the center; to whom is the construction directly subordinated here, at the center; in what relations do the construction organs stand to the Ivanovo-Voznesensk provincial Soviet institutions; names, position and length of service of the principal responsible persons for the construction; who here, at the center, is directly responsible for the entire matter.

4) Number of workers and employees in the construction administration and at the construction site as of 1 May and 1 October, including the staffs of all central and local construction offices (Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Teykovo, Lake Rubskoye); separately — how many:

See the present volume, document 438. Ed.